- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Rally Before the Augusta Riot
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reese Library Augusta University
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- African Americans--Violence against--Georgia--Augusta
Protests (Negotiable instruments)--Georgia--Augusta
Police brutality--Georgia--Augusta - People:
- Oatman, Charles
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- On May 11, 1970 protestors massed outside an Augusta municipal building to protest the killing of Charles Oatman, a developmentally disabled Black teenager, in the Richmond County Jail. In 2021 the Department of Justice, through its Cold Case initiative, reopened its investigation into the deaths of Oatman and six other Black Augustans killed in the ensuing protests.
Black and white photograph of a group of protestors with police facing them in the foreground. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/augusta-riot/augusta_riot_001/
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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